The Museum of Television of the National Television Company of Ukraine was opened on November 16, 2006 on the 55th anniversary of Ukrainian television. It is the only museum in the country dedicated to television. The founders of the museum were television workers who stood at the sources of professional television broadcasting in Ukraine and worked at Khreshchatyk, 26 (old TV and radio center). Those who first pressed the “Ether” button in 1951 and laid the bricks of a new hardware-studio complex on Melnikov Street, which is popularly called “pencil” because of its shape.
On November 5, 2011, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Ukrainian television, the second hall of the museum was opened. It is the model for the first television studio, the installation of the work of the television broadcast of the 1950s. In November 2013, the museum was replenished with an exhibition area in the main lobby of the TV center. The first photo exhibition is dedicated to the anniversaries of the Kyiv TV Center and the Kyiv TV Tower, the second one tells about the persons of the Ukrainian TV screen who started the era of television broadcasting in the capital and different regions of Ukraine. Since 2014, the museum has an interactive set, thanks to which you can try yourself as a presenter or operator, discover the wonders of television technology and find yourself in a 1970s studio in a moment.

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Facts, people, technology, programs — this is the principle of forming the exposition of the museum, which has almost 1000 exhibits. Among them are unique rarities: a TV with a magnifying lens KVN-49, film and television cameras, which used to shoot the first broadcasts, radio receivers of pre-war times, the first Soviet lamp TVs. The permanent exhibition visualizes the history of Ukrainian television through a series of installations and has 2 halls and an exhibition area in the lobby, near the museum.

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The main hall combines conditional thematic areas:
— the history of television in documents, photographs and awards,
— television of the past years,
— gallery of sketches and layouts of scenery for TV shows made by the artists of the TV channel,
— an interactive platform, thanks to which you can try yourself as a presenter and get acquainted with the specifics of the work of the TV studio,
— history of television programs for children,
— a section devoted to the participation of Ukrainian television workers in coverage of the Chernobyl disaster.

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In the Red Hall you can get acquainted with the first steps of Ukrainian television and see collections of film cameras, cameras and microphones. The replenishment and organization of the museum funds is constantly carried out. Both at the expense of internal reserves — transfer of equipment and props not used in production, and with the help of other organizations and museums of technical direction.